Storyline

While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.

Plot Keywords

older man younger woman relationship, apartment, female nudity, sex scene, topless female nudity, elevator, female rear nudity, breasts, mother daughter relationship, paris france, prostitute, lust, female frontal nudity, city name in title, doggystyle sex, anal sex, murder, filmmaking, male nudity, dance contest

Short Review

When Brando improvises within Bertolucci's structure, his full art is realized; his performance is intuitive, rapt, princely. Working with Brando, Bertolucci achieves realism with the terror of actual experience still alive on the screen.

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